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Three weeks after the death of George Floyd by the police during his arrest in the city of Minneapolis, in the United States, violence continues to spread in the United States. There are no massive demonstrations, riots or looting - with exceptions, such as that of Saturday night in Atlanta after the death of African-American Rayshard Brooks - but the situation has taken a more dangerous turn, with armed confrontations between ultra right and ultra left, and even murder rumors.

The most spectacular case took place on Monday night in the city of Albuquerque, in the state of New Mexico, and has left a person in critical condition. It all started when a group of left-wing activists who had gathered around the statue of the Spanish governor of the territory, Juan de Oñate, presumably with the aim of tearing it down, and members of the ultra-nationalist New Mexico Civil Guard militia, faced each other. they were presented at the scene with semi-automatic weapons.

The two groups engaged in an uproar in which one of the members of the New Mexico Civil Guard, Steven Ray Baca, was harassed by the protesters. Videos filmed on mobile phones show Bacca running away pursued by various activists, until he pulls out his pistol and shoots at least seven times. Baca then sits on the ground in the driveway, surrounded by his fellow militiamen, several of them dressed in camouflage clothing and carrying weapons that are the civilian versions of those used by the United States Armed Forces, while They await the arrival of the police. According to New Mexico authorities, a person named Scott Williams was shot several times by Baca, and is in the most serious condition. According to some unconfirmed information Williams was not participating in the protest, but only seeing the situation from afar.

The Albuquerque incident was not surprising. As protests, sometimes accompanied by acts of vandalism, have spread, groups of heavily armed white men have emerged, often calling themselves "affected citizens." Normally, these groups simply stay on the sidewalks of the streets and squares where the marches take place, ostensibly displaying their weapons . Some of those people have turned up wearing Hawaiian shirts paired with camouflage clothing.

That, which could be considered as an anecdote of bad taste in clothing, is, in reality, a sign of belonging to the so-called 'Bugaloo Movement' , a diffuse extremist ideology that maintains that the United States is heading towards a second civil war in the that the white race must fight for its survival. This movement that combines ultra-nationalism and anarchism is dangerous enough that the social network Facebook, well known for its 'anything goes' policy when allowing content on its pages, has limited the presence of 'bugaloo' in its platform.

For the time being, New Mexico authorities have sided with protesters opposed to the statues. The state governor, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, has released a statement condemning "the heavily armed militants who appeared strutting in the protest and calling themselves a" civil guard "whose sole purpose was to" threaten the people of New Mexico with weapons , with the implicit use of violence. "Meanwhile, the mayor of Albuquerque, Tim Keller, has announced that the statue of Oñate will be removed" to limit new risks of disruption of public order . "

But the Albuquerque incident, while the most spectacular, was not the only one that has gripped the United States in recent days. In Florida's state capital Tallahasse, police found the body of activist Oluwatoyin Salau, who had led protests by the Black Lives Matter movement in recent weeks, against police actions on Monday. in relation to that community. Salau's body, which had disappeared more than a week ago, was found in the home of a man named Aaron Glee, where the body of another woman who had taken part in the protests, Victoria Sims, also appeared. Both Glee, Salau and Sims are black.

Authorities have not released whether Glee is the alleged killer, but in a climate of national hysteria over racial tension between blacks and whites, the disappearance of Salau - and, to a lesser extent, Sims - has sparked all kinds of speculation. The same has happened with two black men whose bodies have been found hanging on the outskirts of Los Angeles . Although authorities have labeled those deaths as suicides, their families have questioned that explanation and demanded an investigation.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump today announced a Presidential Order to reinforce the transparency of the US police forces that establishes new and stricter criteria in the training and education of officers, although that is a measure of little significance since in Police in that country depend on counties and cities, not the federal government.

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